Gelina Harlaftis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gelina Harlaftis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Harlaftis |
| SIGNATURE | HARLAFTIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ionian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9611-4277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Best’ Greek islands
This paper offers a maritime historical perspective of some of the ‘best’ Greek island tourist destinations in the modern period. It indicates how island communities, accustomed to earning their livelihood in relation to the sea by specialising in shipping, adapted to the major economic and social transformations that the industrial revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries generated. Moreover, it examines some of the endogenous and e…
Maritime Migrations of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand of free, forced and unfree labour, long and short distanc…
Ottoman History, Neohellenic History, and Maritime History on the ‘Dispersed City’ of the Islands of the Ottoman Empire
Maritime history
The article provides a new version of Frank Broeze’s definition of maritime history by putting it in a framework of a sea. It gives a critical approach to the various histories of the seas and oceans that use the sea as a setting and not as a dynamic agent of change. It argues that the true history of the sea is a maritime history that entails maritime activities: on the sea (seamen, ships, navigation, sea trade, war, piracy); around the sea (mar…
Forum Introduction
The aim of this paper is to review the state of the International Maritime History Association (IMHA) and to consider its future directions. First, it outlines the history of the organisation; second, it considers the challenges facing the IMHA today; and finally it offers some preliminary ideas about planning for the future
Creating Global Shipping
Shipping has been the international business par excellence in many national economies, one that preceded trends in other, more highly visible sectors of international economic activity. Nevertheless, in both business or economic history, shipping has remained relatively overlooked. That gap is filled by this exploration of the evolution of European shipping through the study of two Greek shipping firms. They provide a prime example of the region…
Global Markets
Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period
Merchant Shipping in the International Journal of Maritime History
The Onassis Global Shipping Business, 1920s–1950s
Aristotle Onassis was a leading figure in creating the new global tanker business in the second half of the twentieth century. This article examines the first thirty years of his career, before he became renowned worldwide, setting his business in the context of global shipping developments. Onassis is the most famous of the shipping tycoons that transformed maritime business in the post–World War II transitional period. He is among those “new me…
The World's Key Industry
Maritime transport has been the main driver of trade growth, and the emergence and development of a global economy. This collection of essays from distinguished economists and historians takes an inte
Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey
Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernization of the Ottoman Navy. London: IB Tauris, 2008 - Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernization of the Ottoman Navy. London: IB Tauris, 2008, ix + 258 pages. - Volume 47
International shipping and national economic growth
In Greece, a small peripheral European economy, the service sector and shipping in particular played a highly important role in nineteenth-century economic development. Despite its importance, however, the difficulty of calculating the 'invisible earnings' from the shipping industry's engagement in international activities has led to its underestimation in most analyses of the country's economic growth. This article presents the first estimation …
Aristotle Onassis and FBI archives in the 1940s
Aristotle Onassis (1900Onassis ( -1975)), born in Smyrna, emigrated to Argentine in 1923 and was the archetype of the cosmopolitan Greek shipowner.His name is synonymous with the heyday of Greek shipping in the second half of the twentieth century.He collaborated with his cousins, Nikolaos 1 (established in Buenos Aires) and Constantine (established in Montevideo) Konialides in the tobacco trade for most of the interwar period.In the 1930s he par…
Trade and Shipping in the Nineteenth-Century Sea of Azov
Economic and Social Development of the Port Cities of the Sea of Azov and the Greeks in the Long Nineteenth Century
From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons
This study traces the origins of the twentieth-century Greek shipping tycoons and their global business to the nineteenth-century Greek diaspora traders. It examines the distinct characteristics of a diaspora firm, which can be treated partially as a multinational or “free standing firm” with distinctive features. Based in the main European financial centers, diaspora traders were international operators who developed ethnic-religious networks wi…
European Family Firms in International Business
This article traces the similar paths and common characteristics of British and Greek tramp-shipping companies over the last 130 years through a comparative and international perspective. Despite the tendency of companies to adopt corporate and managerial forms, British and Greek tramp-shipping firms remained first and foremost family firms. The strength and the viability of these firms were networks, on a local, national and international level …
Global Markets
This book is concerned with the role played by the sea transport industries in the development of global markets. It claims that the sea transport industry in fundamentally intrinsic to the political and economic interactions between nations. It seeks to demonstrate that the elements of shipping, internationalisation, and globalisation are intertwined. The purpose of this journal is to trace the development and examine the consequences of globali…
Of Greeks and Ships
A History of Greek-Owned Shipping
Greek-owned shipping has been at the top of the world fleet for the last twenty years. Winner of the 1997 Runciman Award, this richly sourced study traces the development of the Greek tramp fleet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Gelina Harlaftis argues that the success of Greek-owned shipping in recent years has been a result not of a number of entrepreneurs using flags of convenience in the 1940s, but of networks and organisat…
Greek Shipping Offices in London in the Interwar Period
Greek Shipowners and State Intervention in the 1940s
European Family Firms in International Business
This article traces the similar paths and common characteristics of British and Greek tramp-shipping companies over the last 130 years through a comparative and international perspective. Despite the tendency of companies to adopt corporate and managerial forms, British and Greek tramp-shipping firms remained first and foremost family firms. The strength and the viability of these firms were networks, on a local, national and international level …
From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons
This study traces the origins of the twentieth-century Greek shipping tycoons and their global business to the nineteenth-century Greek diaspora traders. It examines the distinct characteristics of a diaspora firm, which can be treated partially as a multinational or “free standing firm” with distinctive features. Based in the main European financial centers, diaspora traders were international operators who developed ethnic-religious networks wi…
The Onassis Global Shipping Business, 1920s–1950s
Aristotle Onassis was a leading figure in creating the new global tanker business in the second half of the twentieth century. This article examines the first thirty years of his career, before he became renowned worldwide, setting his business in the context of global shipping developments. Onassis is the most famous of the shipping tycoons that transformed maritime business in the post–World War II transitional period. He is among those “new me…
International shipping and national economic growth
In Greece, a small peripheral European economy, the service sector and shipping in particular played a highly important role in nineteenth-century economic development. Despite its importance, however, the difficulty of calculating the 'invisible earnings' from the shipping industry's engagement in international activities has led to its underestimation in most analyses of the country's economic growth. This article presents the first estimation …
Greek Shipping Offices in London in the Interwar Period
Greek Shipowners and State Intervention in the 1940s
Greek Shipping Offices in London in the Interwar Period
A History of Greek-Owned Shipping
Greek-owned shipping has been at the top of the world fleet for the last twenty years. Winner of the 1997 Runciman Award, this richly sourced study traces the development of the Greek tramp fleet from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Gelina Harlaftis argues that the success of Greek-owned shipping in recent years has been a result not of a number of entrepreneurs using flags of convenience in the 1940s, but of networks and organisat…
Of Greeks and Ships
Global Markets
This book is concerned with the role played by the sea transport industries in the development of global markets. It claims that the sea transport industry in fundamentally intrinsic to the political and economic interactions between nations. It seeks to demonstrate that the elements of shipping, internationalisation, and globalisation are intertwined. The purpose of this journal is to trace the development and examine the consequences of globali…
European Family Firms in International Business
This article traces the similar paths and common characteristics of British and Greek tramp-shipping companies over the last 130 years through a comparative and international perspective. Despite the tendency of companies to adopt corporate and managerial forms, British and Greek tramp-shipping firms remained first and foremost family firms. The strength and the viability of these firms were networks, on a local, national and international level …
From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons
This study traces the origins of the twentieth-century Greek shipping tycoons and their global business to the nineteenth-century Greek diaspora traders. It examines the distinct characteristics of a diaspora firm, which can be treated partially as a multinational or “free standing firm” with distinctive features. Based in the main European financial centers, diaspora traders were international operators who developed ethnic-religious networks wi…
Trade and Shipping in the Nineteenth-Century Sea of Azov
Economic and Social Development of the Port Cities of the Sea of Azov and the Greeks in the Long Nineteenth Century
Aristotle Onassis and FBI archives in the 1940s
Aristotle Onassis (1900Onassis ( -1975)), born in Smyrna, emigrated to Argentine in 1923 and was the archetype of the cosmopolitan Greek shipowner.His name is synonymous with the heyday of Greek shipping in the second half of the twentieth century.He collaborated with his cousins, Nikolaos 1 (established in Buenos Aires) and Constantine (established in Montevideo) Konialides in the tobacco trade for most of the interwar period.In the 1930s he par…
The World's Key Industry
Maritime transport has been the main driver of trade growth, and the emergence and development of a global economy. This collection of essays from distinguished economists and historians takes an inte
Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey
Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernization of the Ottoman Navy. London: IB Tauris, 2008 - Tuncay Zorlu. Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernization of the Ottoman Navy. London: IB Tauris, 2008, ix + 258 pages. - Volume 47
International shipping and national economic growth
In Greece, a small peripheral European economy, the service sector and shipping in particular played a highly important role in nineteenth-century economic development. Despite its importance, however, the difficulty of calculating the 'invisible earnings' from the shipping industry's engagement in international activities has led to its underestimation in most analyses of the country's economic growth. This article presents the first estimation …
Merchant Shipping in the International Journal of Maritime History
The Onassis Global Shipping Business, 1920s–1950s
Aristotle Onassis was a leading figure in creating the new global tanker business in the second half of the twentieth century. This article examines the first thirty years of his career, before he became renowned worldwide, setting his business in the context of global shipping developments. Onassis is the most famous of the shipping tycoons that transformed maritime business in the post–World War II transitional period. He is among those “new me…
Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period
Global Markets
Creating Global Shipping
Shipping has been the international business par excellence in many national economies, one that preceded trends in other, more highly visible sectors of international economic activity. Nevertheless, in both business or economic history, shipping has remained relatively overlooked. That gap is filled by this exploration of the evolution of European shipping through the study of two Greek shipping firms. They provide a prime example of the region…
Ottoman History, Neohellenic History, and Maritime History on the ‘Dispersed City’ of the Islands of the Ottoman Empire
Maritime history
The article provides a new version of Frank Broeze’s definition of maritime history by putting it in a framework of a sea. It gives a critical approach to the various histories of the seas and oceans that use the sea as a setting and not as a dynamic agent of change. It argues that the true history of the sea is a maritime history that entails maritime activities: on the sea (seamen, ships, navigation, sea trade, war, piracy); around the sea (mar…
Forum Introduction
The aim of this paper is to review the state of the International Maritime History Association (IMHA) and to consider its future directions. First, it outlines the history of the organisation; second, it considers the challenges facing the IMHA today; and finally it offers some preliminary ideas about planning for the future
Maritime Migrations of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand of free, forced and unfree labour, long and short distanc…
‘Best’ Greek islands
This paper offers a maritime historical perspective of some of the ‘best’ Greek island tourist destinations in the modern period. It indicates how island communities, accustomed to earning their livelihood in relation to the sea by specialising in shipping, adapted to the major economic and social transformations that the industrial revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries generated. Moreover, it examines some of the endogenous and e…
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